Trump Needs to Scale the
Real Wall of 2020
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/13/2020 10:51:54 AM
Donald Trump is trying to break through a 2020 wall. By January 2019, after over three years of failed efforts to impeach him, sue him, indict him, impoverish him, and destroy him, the Left had failed. The economy was booming. Trump’s tweets were mostly bragging about his accomplishments. And the Left was dumbfounded that both impeachment and Mueller, in Nietzschean fashion, had only made Trump stronger.Then came an unexpected trifecta catastrophe—plague, a quarantine-induced recession, and a leftist cultural revolution in the streets. Suddenly, the Left saw all of that as a gift that might succeed where its own self-constructed melodramas had failed.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Right Time 7/13/2020 11:20:11 AM (No. 476829)
There is more than sufficient time to turn things around. The Left is still hammering the Covidvirus scare and is going to push hard for a vote-by-mail election, in which their cheating skills guarantee a win. Just today, the usually reliable NY Post has an article that is intended to scare people about a return of the virus, and blatantly says "personal safety is more important than any economic rebound."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/13/2020 11:30:07 AM (No. 476847)
Why did the voters choose an obvious fraud like 0bama twice but spurned Hillary and decided to take a chance with Trump. Answer that and your way is clear. Hillary was bad but Biden is worse. The most important thing is not to be pulled into an either/or trap. If you attack Biden it means you are not laying out a constructive path to recovery in front of the voters. It doesn't have to be that way.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 7/13/2020 11:46:15 AM (No. 476878)
If you read nothing else today.....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/13/2020 12:39:51 PM (No. 476930)
In Conrad Black's own words comes the reason we love Trump: like America, Trump ''was good without having to be perfect.'' Amen and amen.
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Man that was a long one!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mamabear 7/13/2020 2:16:27 PM (No. 477024)
I agree with much of what he said except this: " Constitutional protections were under relentless assault for a half-century by a leisured and exempt class of professors and administrators who fed venom to an indebted and now embittered generation of lower-middle-class youth, who lack all the material opportunities of those who radicalized them." Part A-ok. Part B "embittered generation of lower-middle-class youth." not so much. I saw at least three videos online of kids in luxury vehicles (BMW, Audi. Mercedes) handing out bricks, spray painting "Black Lives Matter" on a building and vandalizing businesses in the black community. Lower-middle-class youth cannot afford to buy or own a luxury car or the cost of the education that enables one to afford it. Whether the drivers and vandals were hired to do so or not, I do not know. But it does appear that some of these radicals are rich, pampered, privileged and should (IMHO) know better than to callously destroy what others have struggled to build.
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FTA: "The swing voters, independents, and purple-staters are framing their 2020 choice in the stark terms of who will 'make it all go away.' They want a magical end to the virus, the quarantines, the violence, the hate, and the division."
This is the game, and there are more pieces coming on the board between now and November. October surprise? It's going to be a regular succession of crises, problems, issues, injustices, tragedies exploited...and that will continue until PDT is gone.
The idea of "dust(ing) off the recommendations of the now old and forgotten Simpson-Bowles commission, update them, and remind Americans that a restored economy, not a depression, will soon be the time to control spending and avoid financial Armageddon" is more nonsense. Whiz many billions, perhaps TRILLIONS in todays spending envirionment, run up debt and support our nation with make-believe money manufactured by the Fed...and then we'll put the genie back in the bottle. What a profiteer's dream. Government will NEVER control spending so long as it can squeeze out one more dollar from whatever source.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/13/2020 3:31:42 PM (No. 477065)
# 2 - I'll never believe Obama won that second term legitimately. Rachel Maddow called the race around 6pm, Obama and make believe family marched out onto a stage, people applauded, then all went home. Half the country hadn't finished voting yet. Many towns, large and small, voted 100% for Obama, a statistical impossibility. No one in the media pushed back so Barry got a second shot at destroying the country. I still think that billion dollars on a pallet, supposedly going to Iran, never left the country.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pensom2 7/13/2020 9:39:00 PM (No. 477470)
A splendid essay. Hanson is a super brain, but also a gifted craftsman with the English language. Would that President Trump would seriously consider the bulk of Hanson's advice.
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